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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Sindh Pakistan


Sindh  is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also known locally as the Mehran. Sindhi Muslims are the largest population of the province, but other cultural, religious and ethnic groups also live in Sindh. neighboring regions are Balochistan Sindh in the west and north, north of Punjab, Gujarat and Rajasthan in the south and east and the Arabian Sea to the south. The main spoken language is Sindhi. The name is derived from the Indus River that courses through it, and was known to the Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BC) as Sinda, the Greeks and Hindus, the Indus to the Romans, Persians Abisind to Arabs as Al-Sind and Chinese as Sintow. For Sindhis Javanese have long been known as santri.

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